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170A Cyber Warfare Technician

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Overview

A Cyber Warfare Technician supervises and manages defensive and offensive cyberspace operations, cyberspace intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and operational preparation of the environment. The technician integrates cyberspace and electronic warfare actions, leads personnel and training, and advises commanders and staffs on their management and operation.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Cyberspace intelligence and reconnaissance oversight
  • Cyber and electromagnetic mission integration
  • Joint cyberspace policy and technical guidance

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Cybersecurity Operations Manager

Supervising offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, leading technical sections, and advising commanders transfers directly to coordinating cybersecurity operations teams.

How to prepare: Build an unclassified operations-management portfolio showing how you set technical priorities, assign work, and develop personnel, translated into a civilian cybersecurity team setting.

What the civilian work involves
  • Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines.
  • Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Atlassian JIRA

DIA Analysis Officer

Oversight of cyberspace intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance provides relevant operational context for DIA's analysis of foreign military capabilities in cyberspace.

How to prepare: Prepare an analytical writing sample using public information about foreign military cyber capabilities for DIA's writing test and interview process. DIA requires U.S. citizenship, a security clearance, background inquiry, drug screening, and any required medical and counterintelligence-scope polygraph examinations.

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Getting Started

  • CompTIA Security+ · Funded

    Validate core civilian cybersecurity knowledge supporting the transition into cybersecurity operations management.

    For: Cybersecurity Operations Manager

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (6 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 170A Cyber Warfare Technician

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 170A (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank warrant_officer, authority codeType warrant_officer

    Supports: Cyberspace intelligence and reconnaissance oversight, Cyber and electromagnetic mission integration, Joint cyberspace policy and technical guidance, Cybersecurity Operations Manager (O*NET 11-3021.00), DIA Analysis Officer

  2. O*NET: Computer and Information Systems Managers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Cybersecurity Operations Manager (O*NET 11-3021.00)

  3. Defense Intelligence Agency: Analysis Career Field

    [3] Career Specifics, Military Capabilities, Applying to Be an Analyst; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  4. Defense Intelligence Agency: Hiring Process

    [4] Opening hiring overview and Employment Criteria, Initial Employment; public page retrieved through Jina Reader 2026-09-23

    Supports: DIA Analysis Officer

  5. COOL credential mapping: CompTIA Security+

    [5] 170A cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: CompTIA Security+

  6. CompTIA Security+ exam details

    [6] Exam details, recommended experience

    Supports: CompTIA Security+

Defense contractor jobs for 170A

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